After a few weeks of travel, the three of us — Nasim, John Bosley, and I — have made it back from our landscape photography road trip through the Western United States. From the Rocky Mountains to the Cascades, we visited some of the country’s most beautiful landscapes, and we captured some footage that we are very excited to add to our upcoming landscape photography video course. We’ve already written about our sunset and nighttime photography in the Grand Tetons, Yellowstone’s dramatic hot springs, and the incredible views at Glacier National Park. As the trip entered its final stages, our second-to-last stop was at Washington’s beautiful Mount Rainier.

Things tend to go wrong at the worst times, and this time our team was out traveling in Mount Rainier when Photography Life went down. While we were filming a part of our upcoming landscape photography course, one of our servers experienced a critical error and the number of requests to the site ended up piling up, eventually overwhelming the site completely and bogging it down. We didn’t have cell coverage or wifi for three days, so we only found out about the problem this morning! The good news is that the website is back online, and we have posted all the articles that had been scheduled during the mean time.[Read more…]

The drive from Montana to Washington was beautiful. I really wanted to stop in many different locations and take more pictures, but I had a set and compressed schedule that I did not want to change. It was rainy and wet at Mount Rainier, which is quite normal at this time of the year. The snow was everywhere though and it turned out that I was there too early. Should have done my homework. I wanted to take pictures of wildflowers, but because of the high snow accumulation this year, there were very few areas in the park where you could find them. Apparently, the best time to be there is late August to early September. Oh well! I still managed to take some good waterfall pictures though: